Christopher Nguyen - How AI Reflects Reality and Why Intentions Come Second to Impact

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🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week's guest is one of the top technologists working in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Christopher Nguyen. With a career spanning four decades, Christopher’s tech bona fides are second to none.Since fleeing Vietnam in 1978, this multiple-time tech founder has played key roles in everything from building the first flash memory transistors at Intel to spearheading the development of Google Apps as its first Engineering Director. Today, he’s become an outspoken proponent of the emerg...

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0:00.0	I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps
0:16.3	some nuggets of wisdom along the way.
0:20.3	This is your invitation to slow down with us.
0:25.0	Welcome to slow more. So I think most of you know that by May 26 my next book is coming out.
0:40.0	It's called that little voice in your head. It's an analogy between computer science and neuroscience.
0:46.6	It's not as complicated as I make it sound. But what I'm attempting to do is to tell you that sadly we humans now understand our computers
0:57.2	better than how much we understand how our brains work and so that little voice in
1:02.1	your head is trying to use the analogies of how your
1:04.9	computer does things and sometimes does mistakes and bring that to understanding your
1:10.1	brain so that you can actually operate your brain better than you operate your phone.
1:16.0	I don't know if that's a nice thing to say, but that's the attempt.
1:19.6	And the subtitle of the book is Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain.
1:23.6	So it's different than Solfor Happy in terms of it has a lot of exercises,
1:30.0	a lot of practice and awareness exercises that hopefully would get you to the point where you practice those things and actually make them work for you a lot more.
1:40.4	Now that doesn't mean that I will actually stop talking about artificial intelligence and my work on Scary Smart.
1:47.0	I think this is a lifetime mission that is really needed in the world. I think this is, you know, artificial intelligence is definitely the biggest thing that we need to work on as humans collectively so that the collective intelligence that's produced is in favor of humans as I always say
2:04.0	artificial intelligence should have our best interest in mind and my guest today is
2:09.3	definitely one of the best minds on the topic of artificial intelligence.
2:15.6	40 years of work in technology with some of the giants of technology around along those 40 years and a serial entrepreneur and today also the CEO of a very, very prominent artificial intelligence company.
2:31.0	Christopher Newen, his attack scientist, a professor and a developer that's second to none.
2:39.1	Since his family in 1978 had to run from Vietnam.
2:44.4	He found himself in California and exposed to technology
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